Apple prevented over $2 billion worth of fraudulent transactions last year and closed 282 million customer accounts

Apple prevented $2B in fraud and closed 282M customer accounts last year

【PhoneAuto News】On May 17th, Apple released a press release showing that the App Store took multiple measures in 2022 and successfully prevented potential fraudulent transactions worth over $2 billion, rejecting nearly 1.7 million application submissions. Apple stated that these measures were taken to ensure that the App Store strictly adheres to standards for privacy, security, and content.

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PhoneAuto learned that in terms of account fraud, Apple closed 428,000 developer accounts and 282 million customer accounts for fraudulent and abusive behavior. By introducing new methods and protocols, Apple continuously improves its mechanism, monitors and quickly detects account fraud activities, successfully reducing the number of developer accounts suspected of fraud from 802,000 to 428,000.

Apple’s Apple Developer Program also rejected 105 million applications suspected of fraudulent activity, effectively protecting users from nearly 57,000 untrustworthy applications from non-compliant stores. More than 100,000 application submissions require review on average each week, and nearly 90% of applications can get review results within 24 hours after submission. In 2022, Apple’s App review team reviewed more than 6.1 million application submissions and assisted more than 185,000 developers in successfully publishing their applications on the App Store. The team also had more than 20,000 calls with developers to help them solve issues that could cause their application submissions to be rejected.

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In addition, Apple also handled more than 1 billion ratings and reviews. Among them, more than 147 million ratings and reviews that did not meet the review standards were intercepted or deleted. In terms of payment and credit card fraud, Apple prevented a record $2 billion in fraudulent transactions in 2022 and banned 714,000 fraudulent accounts from conducting transactions again.

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